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Sto caricando le informazioni... Io e l'uovodi Betty MacDonald, Betty MacDonald (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This has a not dated well. The first few pages had some extraordinarily racist observations about First Nations Americans. Ugh. ( ) Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: Blue like tweed CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) The book is about the humorous life on a wilderness chicken ranch. The book was made into a movie.The Egg and I is a humorous memoir by American author Betty MacDonald about her adventures and travels as a young wife on a chicken farm in the US state of Washington. The book is based on the author's experiences as a newlywed trying to acclimate to and operate a small chicken farm with her husband, Robert Heskett, from 1927 to 1931. Read to see what it was like. Not exactly to my liking. Chapters did not flow. KIRKUS REVIEWThis might be a companion piece to Roughly Speaking. It has the same exuberance, tinctured with distaste rather than nest; it is also about as exhausting as entertaining. It is breezy, slangy, colloquial -- and original. It hasn't the suavity of Grandma Called It Carnal but it's as down to earth a picture of rural life as experienced on a primitive chicken ranch in the far northwest. The young wife is utterly unprepared, despite the unconventional mining town upbringing she had had, and by nature ineffectual. The husband loves it all. And the result is a panorama in black and white of the life, the neighbors, the hardships, with a saving grace of humor.Pub Date: Oct. 3rd, 1945ISBN: 0060914289Page count: 292ppPublisher: LippincottReview Posted Online: May 2nd, 2012Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1st, 1945 The Egg and I must have been written in the early 1940s if it was first published in 1945. So the thing to remember is that it's a window into that time period. I enjoyed reading it and spending time with Betty in the Pacific Northwest. I don't usually like sarcastic writing but she has a quirky twist to her sense of humor that I liked. For me it brought back much of the culture of growing up in the 50s so some things I found especially funny. At the time my siblings and I loved the Mrs Piggle Wiggle books. I found one when I was raising my kids in the 80s and decided not to read it with them. It's a different time. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)979.7History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. WashingtonClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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